Art’s Prospect: The Challenge of Tradition in an Age of Celebrity Audiobook (Free)

In this group of essays, Roger Kimball, managing editor of the New Criterion and an art critic for the London Spectator, illuminates a number of the chief spiritual itineraries of modern art. His wide variety of subjects contains Vincent van Gogh, Clement Greenberg, the Barnes Basis, Matthew Barney, Mark Rothko, and the Whitney Biennial, aswell as the way in which Gilbert and George show the psychopathology of current ethnic affects. Kimball observes that most of the really invigorating actions in the artwork world today is certainly a quiet affair. It takes place not in the Tate Contemporary in London or on the Museum of Contemporary Art in NY but off to one side, from the limelight. It usually involves not the latest thing but permanent things, measured not by the buzz they develop but by silences they inspire.

These provocative, revitalizing essays will open your eyes to the amazing world of art.